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  1. Microsoft OneNote is great. on How Do You Manage the Information In Your Life? · · Score: 2, Informative

    For the most part I use Microsoft OneNote. I have separate folders for personal life, hobbies, software I've written and clients. With lots of sections and tabs. Works very, very well for me.

  2. I have no degree at all on Are You a Blue-Collar Or White-Collar Developer? · · Score: 2

    I don't have a degree or 2 year certificate or anything. And yet I've been doing software development for the past 30 years. I'll never work as an employee for large companies or governments but then I couldn't stand the culture anyhow. I learned to program at the local college while in high school on punched cards. Programming is a passion.

  3. Hogwash on Why LEDs Don't Beat CFLs Even Though They Should · · Score: 1

    Please cite the numbers proving that shipping light bulbs from China costs more than the savings. Oh, and where do you think incandescent light bulbs come from? Oh yeah, China. Idiot.

  4. Find a job at a small organization. on IT Job Without a Degree? · · Score: 1

    Government and big business HR departments will require the often useless piece of paper. Small organizations are much less paperwork bound. Trouble is how do you find those? I'm not at all sure.

  5. Rural Alberta is well served by wireless providers on IBM Bringing Powerline Broadband Back? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm truly puzzled as to how they think they can make any money given the infrastructure challenges. Pretty much everyone in rural Alberta has multiple wireless providers in range. And there's no interference to the amateur radio or emergency services radio systems as there is using BPL.

  6. Re:Wrong question on How to Search Today's Usenet For Programming Information? · · Score: 1

    Incorrect. There are a hundred or more questions and answers regarding Microsoft Access daily in the newsgroups using NNTP protocol.

  7. This has been really ticking me off as well on How to Search Today's Usenet For Programming Information? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I completely agree that Google has been royally screwing up this search page. I also don't see how Google could foul up this search so badly. As you point out I just want to limit my search to microsoft.public.acccess* and it doesn't work. See http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/archive/2008/08/17/google-search-is-becoming-more-and-more-useless.aspx for my blog on this topic as well. And click on the Google complaints tag.

  8. Use the MVPS Hosts file on Browsing Frugally Without Wasting Bandwidth? · · Score: 1

    Try Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm This cuts most of the blasted animated ads at various websites. And blocks much of the cookie monitoring websites as well. Tony Toews

  9. Re:Microsoft Tools... on VBA Going Away, Macs Now, PCs Soon · · Score: 1

    So yeah. VBA is going away. Wrong it'll still be around for a while yet.

    now when the version of office it's running under isn't security patched anymore that code's either tossed or re-written from scratch Or maybe the code will get converted to a newer version of Office which is being security patched. Migrations from as far back as Access 2.0 in 1994 are relatively painless. A little work sure but not a lot.

    Tony Toews Microsoft Access MVP http://www.granite.ab.ca/access

  10. Re:Cross Platform? on VBA Going Away, Macs Now, PCs Soon · · Score: 1
    This story is wrong, wrong, wrong. Office Next will still have VBA.

    Tony Toews Microsoft Access MVP http://www.granite.ab.ca/access

  11. Re:Wow, that's a surprise. on VBA Going Away, Macs Now, PCs Soon · · Score: 1

    No VBA support in the next version of Office for Windows? It's great in terms of eliminating a huge security risk.

    VBA will still be there in the next version of Office on Windows.

    Please explain how VBA is a huge security risk.

    Tony Toews Microsoft Access MVP http://www.granite.ab.ca/access

  12. Office Next will still have VBA on VBA Going Away, Macs Now, PCs Soon · · Score: 1
    That story on Regdeveloper is wrong with respect to Office Next on the Windows platform. VBA will still be there. Yes, Office Mac is losing VBA. That part of the story is correct.

    Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP http://www.granite.ab.ca/access